149 



Showing a balance due from him to the 



Courtis Fund of $890 53 



Due to him from General Fund . $297 13 



" " " " building " . 468 42 



765 55 

 Leaving a balance due from him . 124 98 890 53 



The Treasurer recommended that immediate measures be 

 taken to free the Society from debt, or else that the debt be 

 put on a permanent footing by a mortgage on the Society's 

 building. 



A letter was read from Dr. John Bacon, Jr. the Curator 

 of Mineralogy, declining a reelection. It was also understood 

 that Dr. N. B. ShurtlefF declined a reappointment as Curator 

 of Comparative Anatomy. 



The candidates offered by the nominating Committee 

 were next balloted for and elected to the respective offices for 

 which they were nominated. 



On motion of Dr. Storer, it was unanimously voted that 

 the thanks of the Society be presented to Drs. ShurtlefFand 

 Bacon for their faithful and efficient services as Curators. 



Mr. Desor exhibited a colored drawing, on a large scale, 

 of a Medusa budding from a Polyp. 



Mr. Bouve read a report on the specimen of flexible Sand- 

 stone, recently presented to the Society by W. S. Bullard, 

 Esq. 



It was brought from the neighborhood of Agra and came from the 

 formation known as the Itacolumite formation. It presented the 

 characteristic elasticity of this substance in a remarkable degree. 

 Mr. Bouve doubted if this could be ascribed, in the present speci- 

 men, to the presence and interlacement of scales of mica, accord- 

 ing to Prof. Shepard's hypothesis, as a careful examination with 

 a powerful lens failed to detect this mineral. 



A donation was announced of three bird skins from Dr. 

 T. M. Brewer, and a specimen of fossil coral from 

 Livingston County, N. Y. in the name of L. M. Ritchie. 



